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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in May 2021. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- Digital Markets Act: a conservative piece of regulation (Thibault Schrepel — Concurrentialiste)
- A concrete proposal to improve the DMA (Thibault Schrepel — Concurrentialiste)
- Time for a New Antitrust Era (Mahari, Lera & Pentland — Stanford Computational Antitrust Podcast) 🎧
- What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies? (George Priest — Concurrentialiste)
- The Proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA): A Legal and Policy Review (Nicolas Petit — SSRN)
- Concentration in Product Markets (Benkard, Yurukoglu & Zhang — NBER)
- Competition and data protection in digital markets (Andrea Coscelli & Elizabeth Denham)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Blockchain in the Netherlands (Anthony Day — IBM) 🎧
- As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street (Eric Lipton — The New York Times)
- Why Are Chinese Courts Turning to AI? (Meng Yu and Guodong Du — The Diplomat)
- Challenges and limits of an open source approach to Artificial Intelligence (European Parliament)
- Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Law (Aaron Wright & Aaron Lane — Mint & Burn) 🎧
- International cooperation and the era of digital currency growth (Lannquist & Santamaria — World Economic Forum)
- Language models like GPT-3 could herald a new type of search engine (Will Douglas Heaven — MIT Technology Review)
- Nokia launches blockchain data marketplace for AI models (Ledger Insights)
- The Evolution of AI in movies Explained (Christopher Gares — Grunge)
- How to Regulate Blockchain’s Real-Life Applications (Michele Benedetto Neitz — SSRN)
- Vulnerability of Blockchain Technologies to Quantum Attacks (Kearney & Perez-Delgado — Quantum Physics)
Econ:
- Foundations of complexity economics (W. Brian Arthur — Nature Reviews Physics)
- An Economist’s Perspective on the EU Competition Judicial Review Process (Jorge Padilla — SSRN)
- The Essential James Buchanan (Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe — Fraser Institute)
- An economic theory of blockchain foundations (Potts, Allen, Berg, Davidson & MacDonald — SSRN)
- Andreessen Horowitz Will Launch $1 Billion Crypto Fund: Report (Will Gottsegen — Decrypt)
- Epic v. Apple Trial Begins, EU Files Statement of Objections, Who Owns the App? (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work (Randy Picker)
Other:
- Russian Cyberpunk Farm (Sergey Vasiliev — Birchpunk) 🎥
- The law.MIT.edu Podcast Page (Greenwood, Horrigan, Roquerre, Wilson & Kennedy — MIT)
- The World Is a Lot Less F*cked Than We Think It Is (Concoda — Medium)
- Administrative Law in the Automated State (Cary Coglianese — SSRN)
- The commodification of trust (Balázs Bodó — SSRN)
- Embedding coherence and cooperation in the fabric of digital regulators (Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum)
- Interest-Group Theories of Regulation: A Skeptical Note (Cass R. Sunstein — SSRN)
- Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the United States (Lee & Narayanan — Princeton)
- The Essential Scholars (Fraser Institute)
- Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems (Vuorre, Orben & Przybylski — Science)
Books (only those I enjoyed this month):
- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (Penguin, 2008)
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Dr. Thibault Schrepel
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